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A chinese policeman stands on duty in front of the big yellow duck at the Summer Palace Kunming Lake in Beijing, China, Sept. 26, 2013.

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Ary Borges and family gather at the breakfast table with their tiger Tom, in Maringa, Brazil, Sept. 27, 2013. Borges, who cares for Tom, eight other tigers and two lionesses, is in a legal battle with federal wildlife officials to keep his endangered animals from undergoing vasectomies and being taken away from him.

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Anwar Waseem, 53, and his sister Sakinah, 58, comfort each other as he mourns the death of her daughter, Fareeda, who was killed in Sunday's suicide bombing at a church, at their home in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sept. 23, 2013.

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Nicaraguan girls suffering from cancer prepare for a "quinceanera" party in Managua, Nicaragua, Sept. 21, 2013. For each of the past five years, Nicaragua's Association of Mothers and Fathers of Children with Cancer and Leukemia has put on a "quinceanera" party for girls from poor, rural families, teens who have the added burden of dealing with cancer.

A dead dolphin is carried with a tractor on Upanema beach in the Areia Branca municipality of Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil, Sept. 22, 2013. Around 30 large dolphins known as false killer whales beached themselves in northeastern Brazil.

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Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai waves to children holding flowers during a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Sept. 27, 2013.

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Bangladeshi garment factory workers are reflected in a puddle during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sept. 23, 2013.

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A recently released image from a camera trap captures a Golden Eagle attacking a young sika deer at the Lazovsky State Nature Reserve in the far East of Russia, Dec. 8, 2011. Researchers were using the camera traps to monitor Siberian tigers in the Lazovskii State Nature Reserve in Primorye, in southern Russia and were not expecting to capture photographs of the Golden Eagle attacking the sika deer.

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Pakistani Christians attend special service to pay tribute to the victims of Sunday's suicide attack on a church, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sept. 25, 2013.

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An Israeli border policeman aims his weapon towards Palestinian stone throwers, not pictured, during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron, Sept. 24, 2013.

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Ramesh Vaya, center, is comforted by family members after lighting the funeral pyre for his wife Malti, who was killed in the attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, Sept. 24, 2013.

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Swimmers in the inaugural Alligator Reef Lighthouse Swim round the halfway point at Alligator Light about four miles off Islamorada, Fla., Sept. 21, 2013.

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Relatives of Johnny Mutinda Musango, 48, weep after identifying his body at the city morgue in Nairobi, Kenya, Sept. 24 2013. Musango was one of the victims of the Westgate Mall hostage siege.

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A Free Syrian Army fighter holds his son outside their home in Habit village, the Syrian central province of Hama, Sep. 25, 2013.

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Sri Lankan ethnic Tamil women wait to cast their votes at a polling station during the northern provincial council election in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, Sept. 21, 2013.

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A model is made up backstage before the presentation of Ground Zero's ready-to-wear Spring/Summer 2014 fashion collection in Paris, Sept. 24, 2013.

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A member of the Mexican army's emergency response and rescue team, takes a break during the search for bodies at the site of a landslide in the village of La Pintada, Mexico, Sept. 22, 2013.

Retired Marine and Vietnam War veteran Kenneth Pollack cries during a ceremony to honor two Vietnam War veterans Pollack served with, at Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, Sept. 20, 2013.

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U.S. astronaut Michael Hopkins, left, and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy, crew members of the mission to the International Space Station, wave to their relatives and friends from a bus prior the launch of Soyuz-FG rocket at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Sept. 25, 2013.

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Iranian soldiers march during an annual military parade in Tehran, Sept. 22, 2013.

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Some of the 40 paragliders of the local team perform a "flight of 40" to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Icare Cup paragliding festival in Saint Hilaire du Touvet, French Alps, Sept. 22, 2013.

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Workers on a scaffolding clean a statue of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong for the upcoming 64th National Day near Tianfu Square decorated with flowers in Chengdu, China, Sept. 24, 2013.

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Taleb Nariman Nematpour, left, of Iran and Saman Ahman Tahmasebi of Azerbaijan fight in the final of the men's Greco-Roman 84kg category of Wrestling World Championships in Papp Laszlo Budapest Sportsarena in Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 21, 2013.

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A young music fan cheers as he watches the Brazilian rock/reggae band Skank perform during the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sept. 21, 2013.

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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks in the courtyard of the Belz yeshiva in Jerusalem during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, Sept. 25, 2013.